Graphic Designer

The Safety Net Foundation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 10,000 - GBP 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A community interest company is seeking a volunteer Graphic Designer to create visual assets for marketing and communications. The role involves designing social media content, posters, and templates while improving brand consistency across all materials. Ideal candidates should have experience in graphic design, be skilled in tools like Canva and Adobe, and demonstrate a strong portfolio. This role is critical in establishing a professional presence and enhancing communication with stakeholders.

Benefits

Opportunity to build a strong portfolio

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Creative, reliable, and confident in producing professional designs.
• Experience in graphic design or visual communication is required.
• Strong portfolio is essential, formal qualifications are less important.

Responsibilities

• Design graphics for social media, posters, flyers, and events.
• Improve brand consistency across all visual outputs.
• Develop reusable design assets and templates for the team.

Tools

Canva

Adobe Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

Figma

Job description

To create high-quality graphics, illustrations and visual assets that support SNF’s brand, marketing and communications, helping us look professional, consistent and credible across social media, events, campaigns, and resources.

What difference will you make?

NF relies heavily on clear communication and strong public visibility to attract mentors, mentees, partners and supporters. As a small CIC, we don’t have a large marketing budget, so our branding and visual content needs to do a lot of heavy lifting. If our materials look inconsistent, rushed or low quality, people assume the organisation is the same.

A Graphic Designer gives SNF the ability to present itself professionally, consistently and confidently. This role will help us produce strong visuals that support our credibility and increase engagement across platforms. It will also allow us to deliver campaigns and resources that look polished and trustworthy, which directly strengthens our reputation within the health and safety and construction industries.

This role will

• Improve SNF’s brand consistency across everything we publish
• Increase engagement on social media through stronger visuals
• Support event promotion with professional posters, banners and digital assets
• Help us communicate complex messages clearly using diagrams and illustrations
• Strengthen sponsorship and partnership communications through high-quality design
• Reduce dependence on last‑minute, inconsistent or DIY graphics
• Support the development of templates and reusable design assets for the wider team

Good design improves trust, attention and reach. It helps us stand out and be taken seriously by corporate partners, professional bodies and stakeholders. It also helps us explain what SNF does in a simple and engaging way.

The volunteer’s work will directly support growth. Strong, consistent branding makes it easier to recruit volunteers, promote mentoring opportunities, secure partners, and raise awareness of SNF’s mission. It also supports our long‑term plans to build a strong library of resources that look professional and are easy to use.

Ultimately, this role helps SNF look like the credible, established organisation we are becoming—and increases our ability to reach and support more people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for someone creative, reliable and comfortable turning ideas into strong visual designs. You should be confident producing marketing assets that look professional, clean and on‑brand.

Experience in graphic design, illustration or visual communication is important. This could be from paid roles, freelance work, education, or a portfolio of personal projects. A strong portfolio matters more than formal qualifications.

You should be confident with common tools such as Canva, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Figma or similar. We don’t mind what tools you use, as long as the output is high quality and easy for the team to work with.

You’ll need to take direction but also bring creative ideas. Sometimes you’ll receive clear briefs; other times you’ll be given a rough concept and asked to shape it into something visual that works.

Attention to detail is essential. We need someone who notices spacing, alignment, typography, readability and consistency.

We want SNF materials to look polished—not thrown together.

You should be comfortable working to deadlines, responding to feedback and making revisions without taking it personally. Collaboration matters, because you’ll work closely with the social media coordinator, newsletter editor and founder to align visuals with messaging.

This role suits someone who enjoys building a brand and creating reusable assets that make an organisation easier to run (templates, icon sets, styles, layouts).

Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who cares about making SNF look professional and credible as we grow. Your work will shape how people experience the organisation before they ever speak to us.

What will you be doing?

The volunteer will design graphics and illustrations for SNF’s marketing and communications, including social media content, posters, flyers, banners, event materials and branded templates. They’ll develop concepts aligned to SNF’s identity and help improve consistency across our visual outputs.